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Monitoring whilst taking antithyroid drugs

Authoring team

The CSM and MCA have made the following recommendations:

  • patients taking antithyroid drugs should be asked to report symptoms suggestive of infection particularly sore throat

  • if there is clinical evidence of infection then a FBC should be performed

  • if there is clinical or laboratory evidence of neutropenia then the antithyroid drug should be stopped

  • routine FBC monitoring is not indicated (1)

Reference:

  • Current Problems in Pharmacovigilance (February 1999), 25, 1-4.

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